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The Hop Pickers

Object type

Museum number

1869,0410.2076

Title (object)

The Hop Pickers

Description

A family outside a thatched cottage with casement windows, gathering hops; an elderly woman sitting under a tre to left with a cat, picking hops from a branch and putting them into a basket, a man carrying a branch loaded with hops towards women and children in the yard to right, who sort them into baskets; with branches of hops standing in the ground behind the cottage, sheep grazing in a field beyond; after George Smith; plate 22 from an unidentified series. 1760Etching

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Dimensions

Height: 407 millimetres

Width: 503 millimetres

Inscriptions

Inscription Content

Lettered below the image with the title in English and French, dimensions of the original and 'F. Vivares Sculp. 1760. / Engrav'd from a Picture of Mr,, Geo. Smith. / No,, 22. / Published by F. Vivares Augt,, 4th. 1760.'.

Curator's comments

Published as a companion to 'Rural Lovers' after Gainsborough. See Tim Clayton 'The English Print' (New Haven and London, 1997) p. 188.

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A family outside a thatched cottage with casement windows, gathering hops; an elderly woman sitting under a tre to left with a cat, picking hops from a branch and putting them into a basket, a man carrying a branch loaded with hops towards women and children in the yard to right, who sort them into baskets; with branches of hops standing in the ground behind the cottage, sheep grazing in a field beyond; after George Smith; plate 22 from an unidentified series. 1760 Etching